, 1887-07-03
TOW TALK.
cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Cosby Little paragraphs flckeu Up
Throughout the City.
Iron pillars for the tower OF the cap
itol building are being placed in position.
The highest temperature here yesterday
was 74'; at Salt Lake it was 820; Denver,
go, and Omaha 80.
A large number of soldiers were about
the city last evening disposing Of the cash
they received yesterday morning.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Bills, who
died Friday morning, occurred from the
Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon.
There will be a base ball game at the
fair grounds this afternoon between the
Seventeenth infantry club and the Stars
Of Cheyenne.
A delegation of Cheyenne sports will
leave for Denver this morning to partlcl-
pate in the trap shooting tournament
there tomorrow.
A colored courtesan named Laura Reed,
a soldier and a citizen were locked up for
raising a lively disturbance in a dive about
IL o'clock last night.
A large poster hanging in the Inter
Ocean notifies the public hat reward of
800 will be paid for the discovery of one
Blue Pete Klearey."
Leroy, the horse thief, was before
Judge Fisher yesterday on a charge of at
tempted Jail breaking. The case was
postponed until Tuesday.
The Alert hose team, which goes to
Kearney. Neb., the latter part of the
month, will give an exhibition run on Six
teenth tomorrow forenoon.
All the banks and public offices in the
city will be closed tomorrow, and nearly
all the business houses will suspend oper-
ton to quietly celebrate the nation 8 birth
day.
The colored soldier who has been on
trial at Fort Russell for shooting a com
panion was acquitted yesterday. Mr.. o.
Shannon, of this city, conducted the de
Tense.
There was a dance given at the fair
kEOuuu5 lh5t uiRul ny Odhp Ndlilu pCO-
pie. The park has become quite a resort,
and a saloon has been opened near the
fair grounds.
Your mother takes in washing" said
an Fact End boy to a playmate Yesterday.
she don't take in much if your mother
gets the first whack at the line" was the
prompt reply.
Prot Pasmore is learning to ride a tri-
cycle. He hasn't taken u header" yet,
but tax es ii long.rest every time he sue
ceeds in making the circuit of a block
without a stop.
Two companies of the troops now sta
toned at Fort Russell will leave for Nat.
ural Fort, sixteen miles west of the city,
Tuesday, to practice field maneuvers, tar
get shooting, etc.
Laramie will have a big horse race on
the 18th inst. The contestants are w.
K. Evans Bay Harry and Mr.. Russel's
Brown Dick, and the stakes are $500 a
side. 1t will be a mile dash.
Blanche Pomeroy, the female who so
brutally beat an old colored woman with a
beer bottle Friday morning, was yester-
day placed under 500 bonds to appear
before Judge Fisher next Tuesday.
The last of the quartette OF soldiers
who engaged in a free fight on Sixteenth
street a few nights since was acquitted
yesterday, it appearing that he was a pref
ty decent sort of fellow who was only
guilty of associating with reckless com
~panions.
The county commissioners have issued
a mandate to the effect that all bills
must be presented before the first day IT
that the county credito rs fail to do this
their accounts will not be acted. upon until
the next succeeding meeting.
According to the completed assessment
roll in City Clerk K~uykendall's hands the
corrected valuation Of Cheyenne property
tor the current year is So, 2S3. 934 80, as
against 50, 1865 ,672 90 for 1886 and 81
o74,570 90 for the year 1885. The fig
ures show a constant and healthy growth.
Territorial Geologist L G. Ricketts, has
returned from an extended trip through
the northern and western portions of the
territory. He was accompanied on his
journey by Division E ngineer Kinny ofthe
Union Pacific, who is now at Fort Steele.
1t is said that the latter was in search of
an outlet for the Cheyenne & Northern.
Tourists should take along a.bottle of
st. Jacobs oil. Keep it handy.